How someone leaves matters.
Redundancy, restructuring, organisational change and agreed departures can all create difficult moments for both the individual and the organisation.
Providing meaningful career-transition support can help people move forward with greater confidence while demonstrating that the organisation continues to invest in its people, even when their time with the business is coming to an end.
High Performing You provides independent, practical and highly personalised support designed to help people understand what they want next, position themselves effectively and navigate the market with greater purpose.
The objective is not simply to help someone find another job. It should always be to help them make a successful transition into the right next opportunity for them.
What good career transition support should provide.
Clarity
Help people understand what they want next, what matters and what the right opportunity looks like.
Confidence
Market insight
Help people understand how senior hiring, executive search, networking and selection really work.
Momentum
Turn reflection into focused action so time and energy are directed towards the opportunities that matter.
MEET JAMES
James has a distinctive perspective on career transition: he understands the individual, the hiring market and the commercial realities of the organisations people are moving between.
Calm, challenging and highly practical, dedicated to creating the space for people to think properly while maintaining focus on the actions that move people forward.
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Career transition from someone who understands both sides of the market.
Most career-transition support comes from one side of the equation.
My background spans both.
For more than 20 years, I have worked in and led recruitment and executive search businesses, helping organisations identify and hire exceptional people. I have built executive search brands, personally delivered complex executive and Board-level mandates and worked with organisations ranging from high-growth founder-led businesses and private equity portfolios to major listed companies.
I have also led and grown businesses myself, sat on leadership teams and Boards and experienced first-hand the pressures, decisions and realities that come with senior careers.
Combined with my coaching experience, that means I understand the person making the move, the market they are moving into and the organisations making the hiring decisions.
Careers move through relationships.
Executive search has reinforced something I have believed throughout my career: opportunities are created through people.
Over more than 20 years, I have built a network of 5,000+ professional relationships across business, recruitment and executive search. More than 50 LinkedIn recommendations provide visible evidence of the importance I place on trusted, long-term relationships.
That experience helps me support people to understand who matters in their market, where opportunities may exist, how to use their network more effectively and how to create conversations that lead somewhere.
This is not about simply introducing people to contacts. It is about helping them understand how relationships create opportunity.
A structured approach to moving forward, that works.
Every transition is different, but the principles that underpin successful career moves are remarkably consistent.
My approach starts by getting underneath what people initially think they should do next to understand what really matters. Their strengths, ambitions, motivations, circumstances and definition of success.
From there, we turn clarity into a focused strategy for the market.
Clarity
Know where you're going.
Understand what matters, what you want, where you create value and what the right next opportunity actually looks like.
Position
Build a compelling career story and positioning that communicates your experience, strengths and relevance to the market.
Connect
Create the right conversations.
Identify the organisations, search firms and people that matter and use relationships intelligently to create access and opportunity.
Move
Navigate the opportunity.
Approach conversations, selection processes, interviews, decisions and offers with greater insight and confidence.
Luke, Chief Information Officer
My time with James has been extremely beneficial, and I'm grateful for the hours spent. As background we have covered a range of topics starting initially with levels of change within my own organisation, leading to options internally and externally, an enormous amount of thinking at each stage needed on my part, that needed shaping and action planning for approach.
Our sessions always help me pull at a thread on a knotted ball of wool, and in the session unwind it, getting to root causes, thus leaving me clearer headed, clarity on my meta-thinking and an action plan.
I am super grateful for James' approach. James is able to flex in a natural fluid way that help us / me get the outcome I need!
SOMETIMES THE RIGHT CONVERSATION CHANGES EVERYTHING
If you're supporting someone through redundancy, restructuring, organisational change or an agreed departure, let's talk about the support they need and how High Performing You can help.
